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liberty to invite your attention thereto, that record of this event must be on file among the documents which form the archives of the department conided to your honorable trust.
 have been told by various persons Cnae the documents relating to said es- tates were destroyed Tn a confederation which took place 1t the United States. which fact, If 1t occurred. is. as may he | presumed, known to the American Gov. | | ernment."
 Of the several documents that have | been called for at this office resnect;no the concession of lands situated within the territory ceded to the United States | by the treaties of Guadalupe, dated Feb- ruary ?, 1848, and that of Mesilla. dated December 30, 1853, the only ones found are the royal decrees and sentence of the superior board of the royal treasury con firming the grant made to Mir. Francis Bali of twenty-five "sitios de ganado mayor" on the 17th of January, 1894, of land near Reynosa, in Cameron county, which formerly belonged to New San lander. Authenticated copies of these documents were given to Mr Frederick Hall on the 1st of September, 1883,
 In conclusion, I.have the honor to add the following summary of my report, stating:
 1. That twice, and with due care, search has been made for the grant made to Mir. Michael Peralta in 1758, referred to in your instructions of December 6, 1883, and May 12 of the current year, without having found anything relating to said grant.
 2. That the rule observed during the time of the vice-regal government, when the said document Is said to have been issued, Is that expressed in the account of the proceedings of 1777. ins somuch as the issue of the grant Is concerned.
 The confrm ation was made by royal decree i'll cases like the present one, 1t being alleged that said grant was con- tirmed by King Charles III of Spain, and the grant, executed in customary form and style, was delivered to the village or the grantee after an authenticated copy of the same had been filed in the section of ''grants."
 It is very probable that among the ar chives of the Indies, now kept at Siman- cas, in Spain, record may be found of i the documents called for, in view of the fact that even the most ordinary acts
 were reported explicitly to the King of
 Spain by the viceroys, especially so when as in the present case, a special mandate r of the sovereign had been issued pre- viously.
 In transmitting the present report fol your information I believe I have com t piled with your instruction relating tc the points submitted by Mir. Morgan.
 Liberty and Constitution. Mexico, June IA, 1884 y JUsTINo RUBTo To the Secretary of State in charge of thu Il Department of Foreign Relations
 The following correspondence between y the Spanish government and that of thi: country develops the fact that the Per d alta claim is not of record ill the oficia d archives of the former
 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, January 12, 1885. Il Referring to your letters of tht
 30th July and February last, I have tht
 honor to inclose copy of dispatch # from Spin touching the Peralta grant
 Arizona Territory.
 I have the honor to be, sir, your ob II edient servant
 t FRzpK T. FREL1xGHUYsEs
 Secretary of the Interior.
 LEGATIO \ OF THE UNITED STATES, a MADRID, DECEMBER 24, 1884 h SIR:-Referrng to the Department h instructions Nos 129 and PA, and t. ,s Mir. Fosters reply No. 262, nave tht 4- honor to inclose herewith copy of tn .e reply of the sub secretary of Uitramar t, e Mr. Fosters applicaii ,n ill tke matter o F. the "Peralta" grant.
 It will be observed from the letter o 10 the sub-seeretary that the original copy r. of the ''Peralta' grant does not seem t, If be among the archives of the Indies a ,o Seville but that there is a similarity be l- tween the signature of Carlos III at l. tached to other documents on file ther ,d and that as shown in the photograph Ia forwarded with your No. PA in The chief of the archives at Saville re IT ports, however, that the original doc o- ument may possibly be found among tn ae archives at Simancas. I have consequent M ly requested the minister of Fomento j under whose department the archives a a- Simancas come, to be good enough t al cause search to be made for the origina le document and to aid in the search.
 have sent him the photograph above re at ferred to. which was returned to me b ne by the sub- secretary of Ultramar. le With view to complying with you so instruction No. 283, I have requested Q of the minister of the state photograph C ne the autograph signature of Carlos III
 and the minister has replied, by not IT, dated the 18th instant, that he has refer ly rcd the request to the superior chief C K palace. have, &c, ly DWIGHT T. REEF lg HoN. FRED'K T. FRELINGHuYsEN, Ils SECRETARY OF STATE ' DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ~ WASHINGTON, April 15, 198; or SIR:-Referring to the letters of you as Department of the Both July last and ( in February, 1884, I have the honor to il es close a copy of dispatch from Spair ba additional to the one sent your Depart he ment on the 12th January last, touchin ; the ''Peralta land grant, and fac sin - ile of the autograph of Carlos III ( os Spain, re eceived therewith. ,d I have the honor to be, sir, your ol is- edient seryent,
 T. F. BAYARD. of HoN. L. Q. c. LAMAR.